Riah
Riah was given to 30 girls in 2025, #4,643 among girls’ names; 661 Americans have been recorded with it since 1978 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Riah by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Riah?
#4,643 among girls’ names, 2025
Riah fell from #4,284 in 2015 to #4,643 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born fell from 19.0 to 18.7 per million.
48 babies in 2024, the peak
Riah peaked in 2024, when 48 babies were given it (43 girls, #3,634 among girls’ names). The 30 births of 2025 are 63% of that peak.
Births by sex.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 30 | #4,643 | 18.7 |
| 2024 | 43 | #3,634 | 26.5 |
| 2023 | 41 | #3,754 | 25.6 |
| 2022 | 42 | #3,692 | 25.6 |
| 2021 | 33 | #4,303 | 20.1 |
| 2020 | 32 | #4,340 | 19.8 |
| 2019 | 23 | #5,580 | 13.7 |
| 2018 | 30 | #4,644 | 17.6 |
| 2017 | 24 | #5,491 | 13.9 |
| 2016 | 28 | #4,961 | 15.8 |
Every recorded year (33)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 34 | #4,284 | 19.0 |
| 2014 | 14 | #8,394 | 7.8 |
| 2013 | 13 | #8,945 | 7.4 |
| 2012 | 21 | #6,293 | 11.9 |
| 2011 | 17 | #7,355 | 9.7 |
| 2010 | 22 | #6,139 | 12.4 |
| 2009 | 20 | #6,757 | 10.9 |
| 2008 | 24 | #5,913 | 12.7 |
| 2007 | 19 | #7,037 | 9.9 |
| 2006 | 20 | #6,548 | 10.5 |
| 2005 | 12 | #9,328 | 6.5 |
| 2004 | 11 | #9,766 | 6.0 |
| 2003 | 11 | #9,554 | 6.0 |
| 2002 | 9 | #10,894 | 5.0 |
| 2001 | 13 | #8,080 | 7.2 |
| 2000 | 11 | #9,017 | 6.1 |
| 1999 | 13 | #7,611 | 7.3 |
| 1998 | 7 | #12,101 | 4.0 |
| 1997 | 9 | #9,638 | 5.2 |
| 1996 | 5 | #15,302 | 2.9 |
| 1992 | 5 | #14,980 | 2.7 |
| 1990 | 5 | #14,677 | 2.6 |
| 1978 | 5 | #11,017 | 3.3 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Riah a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Of the 661 Americans recorded as Riah, 98% are girls and 2% boys. In 2025 it went to 30 girls; SSA lists no boys with it that year (fewer than 5, or none).
Years with fewer than 20 babies given the name are left blank.
Girls and boys named Riah: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Riah, and how old are they?
An estimated 656 Americans named Riah and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 10 years old and half are between 4 and 18. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 577 people named Riah (532 women and girls, 45 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 435 born in the U.S. The Census count is 33% above that prediction. Possible reasons: the Census counts people born abroad, whom SSA’s files leave out, and it records the name people give, which SSA may have recorded under another spelling or as part of a compound name.
Living estimate: SSA births carried forward with the survival rates in SSA’s cohort life tables (2024 Trustees Report) for each birth year and sex. How the estimate is made. Count: Census Bureau, first names in the 2020 Census (released April 14, 2026; names reported 100 or more times, with the Bureau’s disclosure-avoidance adjustment).
How common is the spelling Riah?
Riah is a less common spelling of Riya: SSA has recorded 661 Riah and 6,273 Riya since 1880.
Of these 8 names spelled alike, given to 15,654 babies since 1880, Riah is the sixth most given (4.2% of them). In 2025 it was given to 30 of their 566 babies (5.3%), again the sixth most given.
Spelled alike: names in the SSA national file with the same pattern of letters and sounds and at most two letters apart, and Wiktionary’s listed forms; births since 1880 and in 2025, and each name’s peak year, from the SSA national file, published May 8, 2026. Some are separate names, not spellings of one.
Names that rose and fell in the same decades as Riah
Names whose births rose and fell across the same decades, measured on each decade’s share of births.
Similar histories: each decade’s share of births, from the SSA national file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
More about Riah and names like it
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